The Atelier series has become a steady source of incredibly fun JRPGs in the past few years. Routinely releasing a new game with similar but tweaked game mechanics keeps each game slightly fresh and still comfortably familiar. The latest Atelier release, Atelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea, is
It’s Shantae! She’s here to save the town, but the town’s problems are a little too big for her cliche genie breeches. Platforming, belly-dancing, trancing out, and flailing her hair, Shantae does work in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and through some madcap comedy, serious danger, and lots of
We live in a world of smart technology which is steadily becoming more capable of anticipating our needs, but what happens when that technology evolves into to true artificial intelligence and decides it knows what’s best for us? This is a very real concern among both scientists and intellectuals
We live in a world of smart technology which is steadily becoming more capable of anticipating our needs, but what happens when that technology evolves into to true artificial intelligence and decides it knows what’s best for us? This is a very real concern among both scientists and intellectuals
The Atelier series has become a steady source of incredibly fun JRPGs in the past few years. Routinely releasing a new game with similar but tweaked game mechanics keeps each game slightly fresh and still comfortably familiar. The latest Atelier release, Atelier Shallie Plus: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea, is
It’s Shantae! She’s here to save the town, but the town’s problems are a little too big for her cliche genie breeches. Platforming, belly-dancing, trancing out, and flailing her hair, Shantae does work in Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and through some madcap comedy, serious danger, and lots of
After years of lampooning faux gaming consoles, the Neptunia franchise gets a partner, finally, that allows it to make some references to some real part of gaming history. Superdimension Neptune vs. Sega Hard Girls pairs a cutesy JRPG meta-adventure with the human embodiments of Sega’s failures, successes, and historical
Like the stages of grief or the Hokey-Pokey, learning to cope with Compile Heart titles comes in five steps. You put your left hand in, see a boob there, and you deny ever playing the game. You pull your left hand out, realizing you’ve spent hours playing something equal
If you were defeated by a large, powerful robotic guardian, it’d be understandable to run away and flee. Rean Schwarzer is not that kind of guy; after a cliffhanger ending left players wondering at the resolution of PlayStation Vita RPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, a
Role-playing games demand a lot of time and attention. Whether it’s grinding up to the next level or exploring a new area of a huge map, RPGs aren’t games you can really pick up and play. Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
The first ten minutes of any video game are, arguably, the most important part. The first moments introduce the player to the game’s world, characters, and the controls that they’ll need to learn. While it’s a shame that the first ten minutes of Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme
